大学英语专业精读期末所有单词汇总
中学生法制教育-第一拖拉机制造厂拖拉机学院
1.
Anguish:severe pain ,mental
suffering or unhappiness.
Aspire : to have a
strong desire to achieve or to become sth
Atheist :a person who believes that god does
not exist
Bitterly
：
describing
unpleasant or sad feelings extremely
Bulge :
to stick out from sth in a round shape
Costly
:causing people to lose sth or to suffer
Deficiency
：
a fault in sthsb that makes
them not good enough
Delinquent : young
people
）
showing a tendency to commit
crimes.
Detestation :(noun of detest) strong
hatred
Devise :to invent sth new or a new way
of doing sth
Disintegrated :the sate of being
apart or in pieces.
Disinterested
：
not
influenced by personal feelings,or by the chance
of
getting .
Draught: a flow of cool air
in a room or other enclosed space.
Exalt: to
excite
Fault:the fact of being responsible
for a bad or unpleasant situation
File :sth
that is placed in an official record.a cabinet for
storing files
Fuss:unnecessary
excitement,worry or activity.
Heady:excited in
a way that makes you do things without worrying
possible
Hideous:extremely unpleasant or
ugly
Hustle:to make sb move quickly by
pushing them in a rough aggressive
way.
Hypocrisy:behavior in which sb pretends to
have moral standards or
opinion
Impediment:sth that delays or stop progress
League:a collection of
people,countries,protection cooperation
Leopard:a large animal of the cat family that
has yellowish
Lest:used to introduce the
reason action mentioned
Libertine: a person
usu, immoral life interested in pleasure
Majesty: a tile of respect used when speaking
about king queen emperor
Masterpiece: the best
book painting movie piece of music
Monologue:a
long speech by one person during a conversation
Muscular:having large strong muscles.
Navy:the part of a country
’
s armed
forces that fights at sea
Oratory:the skill of
making powerful and effective speeches in public
Outnumber:to be greater in number than sb
Penal:relating to punishment ,esp,by law
Pious:deeply religious
Proficient:able to
do sth well because of training and practice.
Prominent:easily seen
Reel: to move or
walk in a very unsteady way as one
Remorselessly:mercilessly,having or showing no
pity or sympathy
Restively:impatiently,becoming
difficult to control
Rotten:badly decayed
Rug: a piece of thick material like a small
carpet used for part of floor
Ruinous:causing
or likely to cause damage or destruction
Solidarity:support by one person or group of
people for another ,they
share
Spectacles:glasses
Spring:a twisted or
coiled pieces of metal that returns to its
original
shape,down
Statuette:a small
statue
Symbolize:to be a symbol of
Trifle:sth that is not valuable or important
Unaccustomed:not usual ,normal or familiar.
Undeserved:that sb does not deserve and
therefore unfair
Writhe;to twist or move your
body without stopping,often because in
great
pain.
4.
Abdomen:the rear part of an
insect
’
s body
Administrator:a person
whose job is to manage a company,organizations.
Architect:a person who designs buildings
Atop:on top of
Authoritative:in a way that
you expect people to obey
Beckon:to
attract sb
Blonde:a woman with hair that is
plate gold in color
Bolt:to run away, in
order to escape
Boulder:a very large rock
which has been shaped by water
Bridle:a path
that is used for riding horses
Characterize:to be a typical feature or
quality of sb or sth
Classical:connected with
or influenced by the culture of ancient Greece
Conspicuous:easy to see or notice;likely to
attract attention
Contrived:planned in
advance and not natural or genuine
Crisscross:to make a pattern on sth with many
straight lines that cross
Diarist:a person
who writes a diary,later published.
Disembowel:to take the stomach,bowels and
other organs out of person
Domain:the land
thata ruler or a government controls
Drizzle:to rain in fine drops
Element:a
group of people who form a part of larger group or
society
Embolden:to make sb feel braver or
more confident
Firefly:a flying insect with a
tail that shines in the dark.
Foliage:the
leaves of a tree or plant
Forthrightly:in a
direct honest manner
Garrotter:a person who
strangle people to death by a piece of wire
Glaringly:in a way that is easily seen
Herb:a plant that is used as medicine or to
give flavor to food
Hoot:to make a loud
noise
Impenetrable:that cannot be
entered,passed through or seen through
Indefatigable:never giving up or getting tired
of doing sth
Intestine:a long tube in the
body between the stomach and anus
Involuntarily:not done consciously;without
intending it or being
able,control
Lair:a
place where a wild animal sleeps or hides
Legendary:very famous and talked about a lot
by
admiration
Loon:a crazy person
Magnify:to make sth look bigger than it really
is
Mineral:water from spring in ground mineral
gases
Muggy:warm damp unpleasant way
Nocturnal:happening during the night
Nutcase:a crazy person
Observatory:a
special building from which scientists watch the
stars
weather
Obtrusive:noticeable in an
unpleasant way.
Ominous:suggesting that sth
bad is going to happen
Outdoorsy:characteristic of or suitable to the
outdoor life
Pee:to pass liquid waste from
your body
Plaid:a shirt made from thick fabric
with pattern of lines
Pointedly:in a
way that is clearly intended to show what you mean
or
express
Pulse:to move with strong
regular beats
Raccoon:a small north american
animal
Rampage:an occurrence of wild and
violent behavior,often damage
Reservoir:a
natural or artificial lake where water stored
Resident:a person who lives in particular
place.
Resume: to begin again or continue
after an interruption
Rigid:stiff and
difficult to move or bend
Rotate:to move or
turn around a central fixed point
Rucksack:a
large bag light metal frame
Scurry:to run
with quick short steps
Searchlight:a power
lamp that can be turned in any direction
Secluded:quiet and private ,not uses or
disturbed by other people.
Shit:a swear word
that many people find to show
Shrew:a bad
tempered unpleasant woman
Snatch:to take sb
away from a person by force
Spot:to see or
notice suddenly when it is not easy to do
Staggering:so large ,shocking or surprising
that it is difficult to believe
Stern:the back
end of a ship
Tame:to make animal easy to
control
Tissue:a mass of cells that form the
different parts of humans
Yoga:a
system of exercise for body
Zoom:to move or go
very fast
9.
Allegiance:a person
’
s
continued support for a political
Ancestor:an
animal in the past from developed
Appease:to
make sb calmer or less angry
Ascent:the
process of moving to a higher better position
Atrocious:evil or cruel
Avaricious:having
a strong desire for wealth
Bloodshed:the
killing of people
Brood:to think a lot about
sth unhappy way
Brute:strong forceful
Captive:a person who is kept as a prisoner
Colonel: an officer of high rank
Concubine:woman who lives with a man in
addition to his wife
Conjecture:to form an
opinion about sth without proof
Crucial:extremely important because it affect
Degenerate:to become worse ,weaker
Descent:an act or process of going down to
lower
Disposition:personality or
temperament;the usual attitude
Exterminate:to
kill or destroy a group people
Gory:having or
showing a lot of violence
Gouge:to make
with a gouge
Harem:a group of women that are
associated
Humiliating:making sb feel terribly
ashamed
Incurably:hopelessly
Indecency:behavior that is thought to be
morally or sexually
Jackass:a stupid person
Microscopic:extremely small;impossible to see
Miserly:hating to spend
money
Mutilation:the act of severely damaging the
body
Oblige:to force sb to do sth by law
Obscenity:language or behavior
Postulate:a
statement that is accepted as true
Rabid:having or expressing a very extreme
opinion
Reptile:any animal that has cold
blood and skin
Salvation:the state of being
saved from the power evil
Scruple:to be
unwilling to do sth ,think wrong or immoral
Sketch:to give a general description
Soild:dirty
Sordid:very dirty
Speculate:to guess, to form opinion about sth
without knowing all detail
Tame:not
wild,trained to live
Trait:a particular
quality in your personality
Vulgarity:the quality or state of not
having good taste
Wantonly:showing no thought
or care for the rights
11.
Aftermath:conquence or result of disaster
Airborne:transported in aircraft
Ammunition:any objects that are shot from
Battalion:a tactical military unit between the
regiment and company
Burden:to weigh down,to
lord or overlord
Carbine:a short light
automatic rifle
Casualty:loss in numbers in
action against the enemy through injury
Colloquium:an academic seminar on some broad
Company:a military unit below the battalion
Console:to cheer in time of grief
Controversy:a dispute
Convulse:to have
irregular involuntary muscular
Current:a flow
of electricity
Discharge:to end the service of
sb in a formal
Disorder:a disruption of normal
physical or mental
Division:one of the group
sth is divided into
Engagement:a fight or
battle between armed forces
Folder:a folded
cover or large envelope for holding documents
Foxhole:a shallow pit dug by a soldier
Graveyard : an area set aside for
burying the dead
Hedgerow:a row of
bushes,shrubs,or trees
Infantry: the branch of
an army made up of units trained
Irremediable:impossible to remedy,correct
Levelheaded:self-composes,sensible
Machine:a gun mounted,
Onset:assault,attack
Parallel:of two or
more lines that do not intersect
Paratrooper:a soldier trained to jump out of a
plane using
Permanent:lasting or continuing
for a very long time or forever
Prose:ordinary
speech or writing as distinguished from verse
Range:distance to a target
Rhythmic:having
rhythm
Sanity:the condition of having sound
mental health
Shovel:a tool with a handle and
a somewhat flattened scoop for picking
up
Sly:showing that you know a secret
Stocky:solidly built
Strew:to cover with
things scattered or sprinkled
Stump:the part
of a tree trunk left in the ground after the tree
Symptom:any change in the body or mind that
indicates a disease
Terminate:to bring to an
end
Traumatic:related to an emotional shock
that creates substantial and
lasting
Trench a long narrow hole dug
Tripod:a
support or stand for camera
Waggle:to move
with short and quick motions
Wheel-
chair:achair mounted on large wheels for the use
of the sick
Windmill:a structure that has
parts which are turned around by wind.